Saturday, April 14, 2012

How old are you?

There are three different types of
ages for man: chronological, mental and
biological. The Chronological age depends purely on the passage of time. It
indicates the number of years passed since your birth. Mental age is the age
you really feel you are. It has no relation to the chronological age. One can
feel young at the age of eighty or ninety; another one can feel old when he is
just past fifty. Biological age is a measure of a person's real age indicating
how well one is performing for their years. It depends on the functions of the vital organs,
diseases one has and one’s physical and mental fitness. This can be determined
accurately only in a hospital. The functions of the heart, liver, lungs,
kidneys, brain, endocrine glands, and those of our senses (eyes, ears, nose and
taste buds and skin) have to be medically ascertained.

Mental age depends on how one feels
about himself: one’s weight, fat-body and muscle body ratios, aerobic, static and
muscular fitness, how one spends his time and the goals one follows always, can
all influence it. How one keeps one’s memory and brain exercised and focused is
important too. If your memory has rusted, and if the thinking is blurred you
have already aged irrespective of whether you are young or old and you will
feel you are old.

One can reduce his mental and physiological
ages but the chronological one is totally independent.

There are ways to reduce your age: eat less that
too fruits, whole grains and vegetables, avoid processed food, sugar and salt and too much alcohol. Drink a lot of water, do aerobic, muscle
building and flexibility exercises, keep ideal weight and muscle, fat body
ratios. Go after something all the time, keep friendship with those of the opposite
sex of any age, have a healthy sex-life, and be purposefully engaged. Help fellow men and empathize with others, live with your family or a
loved one. Look for old age with warmth and plan the things that you would then
do. Sleep well-eight hours in a cycle of twenty four hours is the ideal- go for
picnics give challenges to your grey matter, learn something
new, exercise your brain and memory through crossword puzzles, memory diary and brain puzzles. Try new food, new dress, use your less proficient hand for your
daily chores and resort to many others mentioned elsewhere in my blogs. If one keeps these points his actual age will certainly be less than the chronological one.